A common New Zealand octopus named Inky made headlines around the world in 2016 when he slipped out of his tank at the National Aquarium of New Zealand during the night, crossed the aquarium floor and ...

In 2016, a common New Zealand octopus named Inky became an unlikely global sensation - not for a trick or a viral video, but for breaking out of his tank at the National Aquarium of New Zealand and ...

Octopus escape stories never stop being strange to read about. Nothing dramatic happens in the moment. Staff locks up for the night, everything looks in place, and by morning, something doesn’t add up ...

In 2016, an octopus named Inky pulled off one of the cleanest escapes ever recorded at the National Aquarium of New Zealand in Napier. Staff later determined that the lid of his tank had been left ...

"He found this rather tempting, climbed out,” Yarrall says, “and he managed to make his way to one of the drain holes that go back to the ocean, and off he went, and didn't even leave us a message, ...

In 2016, staff at the National Aquarium of New Zealand in Napier arrived one morning to find their octopus tank completely empty. Inky, a common New Zealand octopus, had exploited a lid left slightly ...